There’s another bad boy on the block and his name is GreedyTorrent.
Following in the footsteps of RatioMaster and the like, GreedyTorrent is the latest and greatest ratio cheating software program to shake the BitTorrent community.
The freeware software program that pledges to help you boost your BitTorrent upload ratio was developed by Alex N J, a freelance software and web developer, based in India.
GreedyTorrent was developed in C++ using wxWidgets 2.6.3 library http://www.wxWidgets.org), to make porting to different platforms easier in the future. It was compiled using 
MinGW+MSYS and the installation package was created using Inno Setup.
How Does it Work?
GreedyTorrent is implemented as a proxy for the BitTorrent tracker protocol. Once installed, it sits in the system tray and waits for the BitTorrent client server to make a request to the torrent tracker. Once the BitTorrent client server is connected and attempts to report the uploaded quantity, GreedyTorrent modifies the upload ratio to report the results according to your predetermined preferences.
GreedyTorrent advertises the ability to be in control of your upload ratio, which you can set to be increased as a multiple of either your download or upload speeds. For example, to maintain a 1:1 ratio for a poor uploader, a multiple of 1 times the actual download would be enough. This has the advantage that the torrent file you download always maintains 1:1 ratio, no matter how poor your actual upload speed is. Suppose you have a fair upload speed and you just want to double your upload ratio. You can select a multiple that is twice the upload.
Features and advantages?
Ethical?
I don’t know. We’ve had this debate many times here at ZeroPaid and I think it’s really up to the individual to decide that on his own.
In some ways it’s good as it can help force overzealous BitTorrent tracker site admins to be a bit more lenient in their ratio enforcement strategies. For in some cases users who have yet to progress high enough to be amongst the first peers in a torrent swarm get penalized in the end by not being able to upload nearly as much as others. These folks are then oftentimes forced to either limit themselves to what they can reasonably afford to grab, a download “diet” if you will, or seed content for an unreasonably long time. In these circumstances I think GreedyTorrent has justification for usage.
On the other hand however, it can also undermine the health of the BitTorrent community as a whole if everybody is hoarding their upload speeds and thereby falsely seeding content. If you download 1GB it’s only fair that you upload a 1GB in kind.
**GREEDYTORRENT**
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you should go to hell and back if you use this program
I totally agree………F’s up the whole system…..
i agree too the ratios are like points and can be used to earn respect and downloads (if the site enforces the ratios).
this is something that will get you banned on private trackers
Yea i agree its not a good thing but it will help out the leechers
Anyone caught using this software will be perminantly banned from titaniumtorrents.net which is my site lol. We don’t tolerate this nonsense.
Thats fair
titaniumtorrents? will have to check it out…….good policy BTW just plain wrong to use this.
if you want to leech use the usenet
All the above ^^^^^^^^^^^^ DITTO! LOL I don’t like hanging out and seeding longer than I have to but it’s the only way!
PM
I use usenet now because I didn’t want to seed on private BT sites anymore. But usenet and torrent protocols are TWO totally different things! And both work totally different from each other.
I STRONGLY disagree with anyone using this program! They can make all kinds of excuses for using it but in the end they are just destroying the bit torrent protocol and I hope they PAY for it by getting banned from where ever they try to use it. When I did use bit torrent I played by the rules…the same as everyone else….I uploaded back and tried to keep a 1 to 1 ratio the honest way!
Again if you don’t like uploading go to usenet and leech away…most newsgroups do not WANT you to upload anything until they get to know you and to see if you know what you are doing.
But DON’T use this program…all it does is hurt the BT community…if everyone leeched and nobody shared….there would be nothing left to share on torrent sites. On Newsgroups they have dedicated uploaders so you can just leech if you want but on torrent sites they depend on everyone giving a little back to the community.
I think it’s kinda funny….People are always crying about “leeches” and saying they are going to destroy file sharing. People have been making files available online (trading sharing etc.) for a very long time. Lots of people keep saying that “leeches” hurt the community and leeches will be the end of file sharing. I say if that were true it would have happened decades ago.
There will always be “leeches” and there will always be people willing to share what they have no matter what. I’ve said it before and will say it again – Forcing others to upload isn’t sharing…it’s forced trading. There’s a difference between sharing and trading – look it up in any dictionary.
“Leeches” won’t be the death of a community. “Leet” attitudes and ridiculous rules will.
@Tic3…I don’t think you even have a hint of how the BT protocol works! Have you ever noticed how slow public BT sites are? The reason they are so slow is because nobody wants to share just hit and run….and it brings the speed of the files down to basically nothing. Compare that to a private BT site like Torrent leech…where ratios are enforced…everyone gets a good speed!
Frankly I don’t see how you can say that it does not matterif people only leech…it certianly DOES on bit torrent sites! If nobody uploads or “seeds a file then it stands to reason that nobody gets any decent download speed either…then you have idiots that complain that a site is too slow…all because some people didn’t want to share a stupid file! That is not a “leet” attitude…it is called SHARING…mabye you should look that up in the dictionary!
Cool so public trackers get even slower. Ho Hum. Any private tracker worth it’s salt has already banned this sucker.
I would definitely ban any user caught using this.
Thought it’s a bit dated, might as well give my two cents.
I understand if people have to resort to these types of programs to stay in private trackers. When I used to use private trackers, I would get banned after only downloading 2 files because I would be in constant competition with seedboxes. Even when I didn’t download for 2 weeks, my ratio would only be at around 0.4. Programs like greedy-torrent would give users with crappy upload speeds a chance to share with the community. Whether or not this program will cripple the BT system is up to the user.
Nowadays I don’t consider private trackers very much. Public trackers have comparable speeds if seeded properly (downloaded a DVDrip at 600KBs which was the max speed on my connection) and much more variety, plus they allow me proper time to seed.
I understand the idea of ratios is to improve the qty of seeds and a fair giveback for what is recd. What isn’t mentioned when it comes to fairness is that most peoples connections are not symetrical which is the fault of the isp. Corporate connections are more likely symetrical and have a much greater ability to give back. I doubt the trackers look at the addresses of the DLs/ULs and scale the ratios by the DL/UL speed rates allowed by the isp’s. Next time you want to complain about leechers why not do somthing about the biggest leechers of them all the ones who hit us in the wallet every month. Oh yeah….you can’t bully them !